Grapefruit, salt, dark chocolate
How might these three ingredients best be combined to yield a tantalizing dessert? I thought to make a kind of grapefruit juice reduction and add some sugar to make some brittle hard caramel-like things (it would have to be past the point of caramelizing), dunk those in melted chocolate with salt dissolved, and use them to garnish grapefruit sorbet. But this character voted for "grapefruit sorbet, dark chocolate syrup, and sea salt." (Dark chocolate … syrup?) A further suggestion has run to "dehydrating the sections and maybe pouring the chocolate over them. Might be really good with a super ripe ruby grapefruit."
Of course, I don't have the means to make a sorbet, whereas I do have the means to dehydrate pieces of grapefruit.
This line of thought brought to you by a bar of Domori Puro.
Comments
on 2006-02-23 7:23:42.0, A White Bear commented:
That sounds really wonderful, too, but sorbets are ridiculously easy to make. Boil sugar in water, add the grapefruit, simmer for five minutes, and freeze it. Are you not allowed to use other ingredients like water and sugar? That's harder.
and, further, on 2006-02-23 7:31:22.0, ben wolfson commented:
Other ingredients are allowed; otherwise sorbets and caramel things would be impossible. And I think you need other ingredients to temper chocolate and make it suitable for dipping. But one must preserve focus!
and, further, on 2006-02-23 10:58:38.0, Becks commented:
I saw Jamie Oliver do something once where he sliced or sectioned some kind of citrus, sprinkled vanilla sugar on top, broiled it, and then finished it off with shaved dark chocolate, sliced almonds, and fresh mint. Looked yummy, although that probably counts as losing focus.
and, further, on 2006-02-23 21:13:33.0, ben wolfson commented:
he sliced or sectioned some kind of citrus
To make supremes one slices and sections (or rather, sections by means of slicing).
